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"Google Home has stopped answering to that annoying Burger King ad... was likely just a quick fix on the server side designed to block a specific waveform...Interestingly, it’s not the specific function, just the voice from the ad. Asking Home what a “Whopper sandwich” is in your own voice (like a Big Mac, but smaller) will bring up the Wikipedia entry as initially intended." Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/google-home-has-stopped-an...

Maru is an operating system that enables interactive virtual environments on Android. It's based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Debian GNU/Linux, and lightweight OS virtualization (LXC containers) and focuses on mobile hardware It provides a bridge into Android's I/O framework for interactivity in Desktop mode.

Did anyone bumped into the easter egg on his site? If not, try to click on the "purveyor of impossible dreams" text below his name/logo thingie (and keep clicking!)

PS: If you are patient enough to wait for 45 clicks, you will bump into the second easter egg ;-)

There is also AWS Public Datasets (https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/) which are smaller than the "large" public datasets linked in this post.

I would recommend "The New Turing Omnibus" book by A.K. Dewdney: http://amzn.to/2dGetic

Jeff Atwood aka CodingHorror (of Stackoverflow and Discourse fame) recommended this book strongly in this post titled "Practicing the Fundamentals: The New Turing Omnibus ": https://blog.codinghorror.com/practicing-the-fundamentals-th...